Bureau of Justice Assistance seeks to support state, local, and tribal governments, as well as community-based nonprofit organizations, to support cross-system collaboration between criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health and substance use agencies, community-based organizations that provide reentry services, and community-based behavioral health providers.
Donor Name: Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 02/24/2025
Size of the Grant: $500,000 to $1 million
Grant Duration: 3 years
Details:
People reentering the community from correctional or residential facilities face higher rates of death, overdose, suicidality, mental health conditions, substance use disorders, physical health conditions, and homelessness than the general public. The Improving Adult and Youth Crisis Stabilization and Community Reentry Program provides grant funds, along with support from subject matter experts, to provide screening and supportive services as early as possible pre-release, during, and after reentry to address those at greater risk for a crisis during these times of transition. This program facilitates comprehensive treatment, recovery, and other supportive reentry services to adults, youth, and young adults with mental health and/or substance use disorders who are currently involved in the criminal or juvenile justice systems or are transitioning home from a prison, jail, or juvenile detention facility.
This program includes three categories for funding:
- Category 1: State and Local Governments
- Category 2: Nonprofit Organizations (nonprofit organizations must apply in partnership with the relevant criminal or juvenile justice agency)
- Category 3: Tribal governments.
Research shows the most promising interventions have common elements at the pre- and postrelease stages of reentry. This program seeks applications that propose to increase the likelihood of positive outcomes through a variety of interventions such as increased and continued access to evidence-based treatment, medication-assisted treatment (MAT), cognitive behavioral therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy. Examples of elements at each stage include:
- Pre-release stage, elements include: ensuring people are screened, assessed, and identified for program participation and clinical services during pretrial detention or as early as possible upon incarceration and prior to release.
- Post-release elements include: providing participants with discharge planning and wraparound services based on the results of their screening and assessment, and that support continuity of care and long-term recovery in the community.
- Specific services may include: benefit coordination, case management, evidence-based programming, peer support, enrollment in healthcare coverage, relapse prevention, suicide prevention, homelessness prevention, and clinically indicated medications.
Applicants may seek funds to, for example:
- Hire personnel (e.g., case managers, behavioral health providers, peer support specialists).
- Pay for medication (e.g., psychiatric medication, FDA-approved medication to support medication-assisted treatment, naloxone) and other supplies.
- Pay for screening and assessment tools and associated training to support program eligibility and clinical services during pretrial detention or as early as possible upon incarceration and prior to release.
- Pay for discharge planning services that support continuity of care and long-term recovery in the community
- Pay for benefit coordination; case management; evidence-based programming; peer support; enrollment in health care coverage; relapse, suicide, and homelessness prevention; and clinically indicated medications.
Program Goals and Objectives
- Goal 1: To establish or expand cross-system approaches to reduce the risk of crisis and improve reentry and recovery outcomes for people reentering the community from correctional facilities (e.g., jails, prisons, juvenile detention) with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and co-occurring disorders.
- Objective 1: Support cross-system collaboration between criminal and juvenile justice agencies, mental health and substance use agencies, community-based organizations that provide reentry services, and community-based behavioral health providers to improve clinical stabilization pre-trial, during confinement.
- Objective 2: Support continuity of care and recovery during the transition to the community for individuals with serious mental illness, substance use disorders, and cooccurring disorders through a combination of: (1) training and education; (2) modifications to administrative or clinical processes; (3) partnerships among system stakeholders; (4) increased access to evidence-based crisis stabilization, treatment, and recovery support services; and (5) strengthened crisis response services in the community.
Funding Information
- Anticipated Total Amount To Be Awarded Under This Funding Opportunity: $8,250,000
- Anticipated Award Ceiling: Up to $825,000.
Grant Period
Anticipated Period of Performance Duration: 36 months.
Eligibility Criteria
- Category 1: State and local governments
- State governments
- County governments
- City or township governments
- Special district governments
- Category 2: Nonprofit organizations
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Category 3: Tribal governments
- Native American Tribal governments (federally recognized)
- Native American Tribal governments (other than federally recognized).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
